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From: "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>
To: Der Herr Hofrat <der.herr@mail.hofr.at>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kthread execve question
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 18:18:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <A811111E8C@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> (raw)

On  2 Sep 02 at 17:03, Der Herr Hofrat wrote:
> 
>  any hint whats wrong ? any pointers to using kernel threads dosc/examples in 
>  general and how to execute user space apps would be appreciated.
> 
> char cmd_path[256] = "/bin/echo";
> 
> static int exec_cmd(void * kthread_arg)
> {
>     static char * envp[] = { "HOME=/", 
>         "TERM=linux", 
>         "PATH=/:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin", 
>         NULL };
>     char *argv[] = { kthread_arg,
>         ">>",
>         "/tmp/kthread_echo", 

'>>' is bash thing. Try executing "/bin/touch" with "/tmp/testfile" instead.
If /tmp/testfile will appear, you got it.

And also do not forget that argv[0] should contain program name, not
first argument - so in most cases you want
exec_usermodehelper(argv[0], argv, envp) ...
                                                    Petr Vandrovec
                                                    

             reply	other threads:[~2002-09-02 16:14 UTC|newest]

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2002-09-02 16:18 Petr Vandrovec [this message]
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2002-09-02 15:03 Der Herr Hofrat

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